Australia has a stunt double in Mad Max: Fury Road and it's home to some of the most incredible scenery in the world.

In 1980, Terry Fox embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research. That journey was called the Marathon of Hope.

common name, for a group of birds (use Q82562 for tribe Anserini)

by Carla Dominguez Sanora Babb was a writer, poet, and journalist who spent most of her adult life living in the shadow of John Steinbeck. By a strange twist of fate, the meticulous notes she took …

Moses Fleetwood Walker (October 7, 1856 – May 11, 1924) was an American professional baseball catcher who is credited with being one of the first black men to play in Major League Baseball (MLB). A native of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, and a star athlete at Oberlin…

Norway is the world’s biggest per-capita market for electric vehicles, but incentives are being clawed back as Oslo aims to go car-free.

military march by Julius Fučík

From racial controversies to box office bombs, the Mouse House’s most famous animated features weren't always fairy tales in real life.

American children's picture book, 1936

Indian dish

Merck KGaA (also called as the Merck Group), branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational pharmaceutical, chemical and life sciences company headquartered in Darmstadt, with about 56,000 employees and present in 66 countries. Merck was founded…

Broadcasters bringing back “The Star-Spangled Banner” as a daily feature say they are encouraging unity, but the song can also be a dividing line.

human settlement in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States of America

What is certain about the night of Oct. 11, 1973, is this: When Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker Jr. arrived at the sheriff's department in Pascagoula, Mississippi, they were frantic. They told authorities they had just been abducted by aliens. Each had…

philosophical consideration that observations of the Universe must be compatible with the conscious and sapient life that observes it

A different astronomy and space science
related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Drum company

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pieces of intestinal lining mistaken for parasites (created using bleach enemas)